Narrow search
Showing 11 - 20 of 52,872
Cover Image
Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Impullitti, Giammario; Prat, Julien - CESifo - 2014
Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in … trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers. Wage inequality across and within firms results from their different … Hartz labor market reforms account for the sharp increase in residual inequality observed in the data. By contrast …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877715
Cover Image
Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Impullitti, Giammario; Prat, Julien - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in … trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers. Wage inequality across and within firms results from their different … Hartz labor market reforms account for the sharp increase in residual inequality observed in the data. By contrast …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744665
Cover Image
Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Impullitti, Giammario; Prat, Julien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in … trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers. Wage inequality across and within firms results from their different … Hartz labor market reforms account for the sharp increase in residual inequality observed in the data. By contrast …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083807
Cover Image
Borrowing constraints, search, and life-cycle inequality
Griffy, Benjamin - 2017 - This Version: Nov. 24th, 2017
This paper quantifies the impact of borrowing constraints on consumption and earnings inequality in a life-cycle model … inference to estimate the model parameters, and show that wealth inequality causes both placement into lower-paying jobs as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011963363
Cover Image
'Residual' Wage Disparity in Directed Search Equilibrium
Kennes, John; King, Ian Paul; Julien, Benoit - EconWPA - 2002
We examine how much of the observed wage dispersion among similar workers can be explained as a consequence of a lack of coordination among employers. To do this, we construct a directed search model with homogenous workers but where firms can create either good or bad jobs, aimed at either...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126186
Cover Image
Trade Liberalization and Inequality in Canada in the 1990s
Schwanen, Daniel - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
In this chapter, Daniel Schwanen addresses the impact of the major trade liberalization efforts undertaken by Canada and its trading partners beginning with the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in 1989. The author focuses in particular on the question of whether liberalized trade could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518909
Cover Image
Has Globalization Eroded Labor’s Share? Some Cross-Country Evidence
Harrison, Ann - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
In recent years, economists and other social scientists have devoted extensive research efforts to understanding the widening wage gap between high-skill and low-skill workers. This paper focuses on a slightly different question: how has globalization affected the relative share of income going...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257852
Cover Image
Directed sector and skill-specific technological change: The development of wages for the high and low skilled
Antony, Jürgen - 2003
This paper presents a dynamic two sector, two skill groups model of endogenous skill and sector specific technological change. The sectors refer to a high-tech” and a low-tech” sector of an economy. The direction of technological change is driven by market forces determined by the skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291687
Cover Image
Micro-mechanisms behind declining labour shares: Market power, production processes, and global competition
Mertens, Matthias - 2019
This article investigates how changing production processes and increasing market power at the firm level relate to a fall in Germany's manufacturing sector labour share. Coinciding with the fall of the labour share, I document a rise in firms' product and labour market power. Notably, labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984432
Cover Image
Micro-mechanisms behind declining labour shares : market power, production processes, and global competition
Mertens, Matthias - 2019
This article investigates how changing production processes and increasing market power at the firm level relate to a fall in Germany’s manufacturing sector labour share. Coinciding with the fall of the labour share, I document a rise in firms’ product and labour market power. Notably,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011975260